The ClubWar (also Cudgel War, Finnish Nuijasota, Swedish Klubbekriget) was a 1596 peasant uprising in the kingdom of Sweden against the exploitation by the nobility and military in what is today Finland.

The Sierra Club is threatening to disband a Utah chapter whose leaders are speaking out against the U.S. threat of invading Iraq, openly defying a decision by the venerable environmental group to avoid a formal stance on the war issue.

Although the club hasn't taken a poll, the Glen Canyon group says its views mirror those of most of the 700,000 members and should be reflected in the organization's official position on war with Iraq.

Sierra Club officials said privately that nothing is likely to happen to the board members of the Utah group unless they force the issue by ratcheting up their criticisms.

Sure it's your right and sure you may not support the war but denouncing your government in public in that manner is just disrespectful to the troops on the ground.

If America were not behind the war in it's infancy (at least a majority) it would have never passed in Congress as the people that voted for it are essentially an extension of the citizens they represent.

I think this whole perception of the war is merely a paradox of the changing ethics in America.

The Guinea Pig Club was formed of patients of Archibald McIndoe at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex who underwent reconstructive plastic surgery during the World War II generally after receiving burn injuries in aircraft.

During the Battle of Britain, most of the patients were fighter pilots but by end of the war, a total of around 80% of the members of the club were from bomber crews of RAF Bomber Command.

Discounting entirely the Cold War and just focusing on major conflicts in the 20th Century it is hard to think about Presidents who have not been “War Presidents.” But I just don’t remember the rest of them making it a campaign slogan.

The other reason that Bush seems to be claiming that he is a War President is so the dismal state of the economy really can’t be blamed on him.

But wait, the costs of the War(s) {War on Terrorism, Afghanistan, and Iraq} have to be good for at least the military industrial complex.

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We are proposing to cross an international border and, however justified it may be, we have to recognize that the difference in the circumstances now compared to what existed in 1991 has profound implications for the way the rest of the world views what we are doing.

There is a case to be made that further delay only works to Saddam Hussein's advantage, and the clock should be seen to have been running on the issue of compliance for a decade, therefore not needing to be reset again to the starting point.

What resulted were three separate national club resolutions--one that instead condemned Iraqi aggression and called for the dismantling of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, another that encouraged club members to focus on energy policies, and a third that forbade club members from using the club's name to make public statements about military conflicts.

The club didn't release its November resolutions to the media as it normally does, and it wasn't until the Glen Canyon Four threw the first grenade in the club's latest sagebrush rebellion that most members heard about the resolutions.

Still frustrated by the club's seeming lack of progressive ideals, Sierra Club members, led by the Glen Canyon Four, are banding together to introduce a strongly worded anti-war referendum that the general membership will vote on in the spring, likely after war breaks out.

The Sierra Club, the organization he almost single-handedly built into a global green powerhouse, has become so cowardly since his death two years ago that now it refuses even take a stand against war, which Brower believed to be the ultimate environmental nightmare.

The most disgusting internal crackdown came last year in a spiteful attack on Moisha Blechman, a Sierra Club activist in New York City, who was smeared with accusations of the most scurrilous kind, mainly because she was too green for the cautious twerps who run the Club.

And apparently war is okay with the Club as long as it's the result of a consensus process (even if the UN consensus was brokered by bullying and bribery)-although how the environment suffers any less under this feel-good scenario remains a mystery.

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And the most frightening thing about the weekend was the amount of times we were thanked for speaking out against the war because that individual speaking thought it unsafe to do so in their own community, in their own life.

Another relative tells me of a school board decision to cancel a civics event that was proposing to have a moment of silence for those who have died in the war because the students were including dead Iraqi civilians in their silent prayer.

We demand that war be painstakingly realized on the screen, but that war remain imagined and conceptualized in real life.

Everyone in the known universe knew deep in their dirty little hearts that the reason for the war was to prevent a (eventually) nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein from controlling "ALL" of the Middle-Eastern oil.

I agree: the major PR problem was that the Administration allowed the legal case, based primarily on failure to comply with the cease-fire, and the strategic argument - that the current mafiosi running Middle Eastern governments must be wacked - to be ellided, ultimately resulting in the former eclipsing the latter.

The problem was that they had already launched their war sales jubilee with the arresting image of a smoking gun in the shape of a mushroom cloud.

Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, had began an investigation into the alleged crimes of the Bush administration on the basis of reports prepared by human rights organizations, journalists and scholars as well as recent decisions by U.S. courts.

The charges were initially drafted by a group called Lawyers Against the War (LAW) and then adopted by Canadian prosecutors.

According to polls, Canadians are strongly opposed to the Iraq war and disagree with many of the president's domestic and foreign policies.

In War Stories: Operation Iraqi Freedom he sweeps aside the empty, second-hand chatter of liberal pundits to give you a riveting, eyewitness account of the heroism, courage, and unflagging patriotism of the American military forces that ended Saddam Hussein's bloody tyranny.

This isn't a book about generals and admirals; North introduces you to the young warriors who put their lives on the line -- the victors who now hope that their stunning triumph won't be stolen from them by naysayers, critics, and the antiwar crowd.

With the authority of an eyewitness and a combat veteran, North succinctly skewers the conventional view of the Iraq war, asking simply: "What quagmire?" He unblinkingly refutes accusations of Pentagon planning blunders, shortages of food, fuel, and ammunition, rejection by the Iraqi people, and the expectations of huge American casualties.